Kang Ji Hwan is a popular South Korean actor. Born on March 20, 1977, as Jo Tae Gyu, he began his career in musical theatre in 2001 in such popular productions as “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” and “Grease.” Starting in 2003, he took on his stage name Kang Ji Hwan when he began appearing in television dramas. It was his role in the 2005 drama “Be Strong, Geum Soon!” that catapulted him to fame across Asia. He has since starred in many popular films and television series, including the 2008 film “Rough Cut” as well as his roles in the popular television dramas “My Girlfriend Is an Agent” (2009), “Coffee House” (2010), “Lie to Me” (2011), “Incarnation of Money” (2013) and “Big Man” (2014).

Kang Ji Hwan

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Kang Ji Hwan Receives Probation Sentence For Sexual Assault

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Only the toughest will survive! The hit MBC variety program, Real Men, is back. The Korean army plans to select excellent soldiers from different units for 300 Warriors to celebrate the 70th anniversary of founding of the armed forces. New celebrity members go through the same evaluation process as the real challengers representing their units. In this season, they get to meet the soldiers from Special Forces and Korea Army Academy at Yeongcheon. Join in on the action, as they challenge their limits to become the honorable 300 warrior soldiers.

The Real Men 300

Orphaned at birth, Ji Hyeok has struggled to survive for as long as he can remember. He has done everything from being a boxer to working as a street thug. His whole life turns upside down when he suddenly finds himself the son of one of the largest conglomerate families in Korea. In an attempt to save his biological son, Dong Seok, Chairman Kang Sung Wook tries to take Ji Hyeok's heart and give it to Dong Seok. However, in the middle of the transplant surgery, Ji Hyeok miraculously wakes up from anesthesia. When the media catches wind of his existence, Chairman Kang panics and tries to play off Ji Hyeok as his real son. Meanwhile, Dong Seok is forced to go overseas for a heart transplant. When he returns, he immediately seeks out his girlfriend, Mi Ra. However, when he realizes that Mi Ra has developed feelings for Ji Hyeok, he sees red and vows revenge, paving the way for a complicated future for these two men connected by a strange twist of fate.

Big Man

 The Big Man Team

Kang Seok had nothing to fear growing up because his father, a real estate millionaire, was always there to clean up his mess. But one day, Kang Seok's father is murdered by his mistress, Eun Bi Ryung, and his beloved staff, Ji Se Kwang. Then they frame Kang Seok's mother for the murder, and she gets wrongly locked up in prison. Kang Seok ends up going from the only son of a real estate millionaire to a penniless orphan. Jae In, who grew up with a money-grubbing loan shark mother Bok Hwa Sool, resorts to binge eating to deal with stress. Kang Seok gets hit by Hwa Sool's car but miraculously survives the accident. But he loses his memory and ends up living with Jae In and Hwa Sool. To Jae In, whose only outlet for stress release has been eating, Kang Seok is a ray of light. Can Cha Don, who becomes a prosecutor with Hwa Sool's support, remember that he is Lee Kang Seok, prove his mother innocent, and get back his dad's inheritance?

Incarnation of Money

The Won Team

Her name is Gong Ah Jung. She's very nice but has never thought about getting married. She thought she would be free forever, but one day, she realized being single is cumbersome. She laughed at her friends who would get old under the name of a madam, but now she is worried that she will become a person worse than that title. She studied and worked hard and ran hard without fear, but she was pushed to the lowest rank in all kinds of social benefits in the community. What does it mean to get married? She dreams of love but always shouts, "Love is so much." Can she succeed in finding her true love?

Lie to Me

Hyun Ki Joon

Every couple has secrets, but this couple takes it to a whole new level. Ahn Soo Ji (Kim Ha Neul) is an expert martial artist and fencer. She also is a veteran secret agent with the NIS. But her boyfriend, Lee Jae Joon (Kang Ji Hwan), doesn’t know that and is fed up with her sudden disappearances and preposterous excuses and wants to break up with her.

Unbeknownst to Soo Ji, Jae Joon also works for the NIS as an analyst and rookie field agent. As the couple tries to hide each other’s professions from the other, they are assigned to the same international mission to stop a Russian organized crime group from getting their hands on an advanced bio-chemical weapon in Korea. Can Soo Ji and Jae Joon carry out the important mission without killing each other?

“My Girlfriend Is an Agent” is a 2009 South Korean film directed by Shin Tae Ra. It was remade into the 2013 television drama “7th Grade Civil Servant.”

My Girlfriend Is An Agent

The Secret Agents' Team

Having fought his way to the top of a locally organized crime ring, Lee Gang Pae (So Ji Sub) now sits proudly as second in command. No stranger to violence, Gang Pae has a reputation as being a man no one would want to cross. Yet, despite his violent nature, he harbors a soft spot for cinema and still hopes to someday star in a film.

While Gang Pae dreams of being a star, superstar Jang Soo Ta (Kang Ji Hwan) is the real deal. Haughty and hot-tempered, Soo Ta is the perfect fit for the role of a gangster he’s taken for his latest film. Unfortunately, sinking too deeply into his character leads Soo Ta to take things too far, bringing production to a standstill. With stuntmen now refusing to work with him, Soo Ta takes it upon himself to find someone to fill in as his opponent.&nbsp;

Remembering a brief run-in with Gang Pae at a local bar, Soo Ta approaches the gangster with an offer to co-star in his latest film. Unable to refuse a chance to make his dreams come true, Gang Pae accepts the actor’s request, on one condition: all of the fight scenes they do must be real. Does this hot-tempered star have what it takes to go toe-to-toe with an actual mob boss?

Based on an original story by Kim Ki Duk, “Rough Cut” is a 2008 South Korean action film directed by Jang Hoon.

Rough Cut

KBS, KOCOWA

Hong Gil Dong was born as an illegitimate child. As he struggled discrimination while growing up, he became a bandit leader. Feeling frustrated, Gil Dong decides to leave Joseon and go to Qing. At the same time, he meets Heo Yi Nok, who is from Qing, and is determined to learn Chinese from her by all means. Meanwhile, Yi Nok returns to Joseon hoping to make a good fortune out of the medicine she found in Qing. However, she is facing an unexpected business crisis due to Gil Dong's interruption. To make the matter worse, Yi Nok is attacked by strangers because of the hairpin of the queen she accidentally picked up. Gil Dong appears like a hero and gets her off the hook. The two get tangled up and join Hwalbindang to help the poor, and the gang led by Gil Dong gains the people's trust day by day. Fear of losing public support, the king plans to get rid of Hwalbindang. Between the real heroes and those who seek to establish regal power, what will Gil Dong's fate be like?

Hong Gil Dong, the Hero!

Hong Gil Dong

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Min Woo's first love was sadly unrealized. On one rainy summer day, he had fallen in love with Eun Hye, but unfortunately, she dies in a car accident. He runs into Hye Won in the mountains he used to frequent with his former flame, and sees that Hye Won and Eun Hye share many similar qualities. Hye Won had suffered a heart condition as a child and later underwent a heart transplant. She had received the heart from Min Woo's first love. When Hye Won first sets her eyes on Min Woo, her heart responded wildly. Jung Jae is Hye Won's childhood love who is gentle and handsome. But because Hye Won's heart continues to respond to Min Woo, she must choose which man to love.

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